Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
See CV for full list.
The dissertation can be downloaded here: lingbuzz or knowledge@uchicago.
No logic in conflicting requirements: Reply to Branan 2022. Submitted. (draft)
West Circassian lessons on Phase Theory. Invited submission to Theoretical Issues in the Languages of the Caucasus (ed. Balkız Öztürk). (draft)
2024. Phasehood as defective intervention: Possessor extraction and selective DP islandhood in West Circassian. In Syntax (Early View). https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12275. (pre-print on lingbuzz)
2023. Syntactic ergativity and the theory of subjecthood: Evidence from anaphor binding in West Circassian. In Language 99(2), 193-241. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2023.a900086. (pre-print on lingbuzz)
2021. Diagnosing clause structure in a polysynthetic language: Wh-agreement and parasitic gaps in West Circassian. In Linguistic Inquiry 52(1), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00371 (pre-print on lingbuzz)
2020. Two paths to polysynthesis: Evidence from West Circassian nominalizations. In Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 38(2), 425-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-019-09455-w (pre-print on lingbuzz | read-only)
to appear. Phi-feature mismatches in Samoan resumptives as postsyntactic impoverishment. In Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society (2023).
2022. Configurationality in Polysynthesis: Weak Crossover in West Circassian. In Aitha, Akshay, Steven Castro, and Brianna Wilson (eds.) Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2020), 79-94.
2017. Unaccusativity and the syntax of imperatives in East Circassian. In Farrell, Patrick (ed.) Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, vol. 2, 36:1-14.
2013. Reported speech and reportative grammaticalization in Besleney Kabardian. In B. Surányi (ed.) Proceedings of the 2nd Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 71-87.
2024. (with Nikita Bezrukov) Moving away from antilocality: A defense of very local movement. Presented at LASER Workshop at Göttingen University (April 9-11, 2024).
2023. What's in a (polysynthetic) phase: Dynamic domains, spellout and locality. Presented at CYCLOPS-Colloquium at Leipzig University (December 13, 2023).
2023. The nuanced typology of syntactic ergativity: Insights from parasitic gaps in Samoan and West Circassian (UCL handout). Presented at Rutgers University (January 27), University of Washington (February 17), University of Maryland (April 6), the Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics in Berlin (April 12), and University College London (April 19).
2023. The interaction between movement, licensing, and spell-out: What c-commands what in West Circassian nominalizations. Presentation at UMass Syntax Workshop (March 3, 2023).
2022. Unexpected consequences of polysynthesis: deficient probes, dynamic phases and the role of C. Presentation at Penn Linguistics Speaker Series (October 20, 2022).
2022. Unexpected A'-movement in West Circassian: Theoretical implications for syntactic ergativity. Presentation at the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (April 1, 2022).
2023. Licensed to license: Deficient probes in West Circassian nominalizations. Presented at GLOW 46 (April 12-14, Vienna, Austria).
Also invited presentation at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (May 9).
2023. Ergatives are special: Parasitic resumptives and the Ergative Extraction Constraint in Samoan. Presented at LSA 2023 (January 5-8, Denver, CO).
2021. Multiple feature inheritance makes polysynthesis: Evidence from West Circassian nominalizations. Presented at LSA 2021 Annual Meeting (January 7-10, online).
2019. (with Itamar Francez). From quotation to concession: The case of East Circassian. Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (March 6-8, University of Bremen)